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XCOM anticipation- squad names

Everyone who knows anything knows how important it is to name your hapless, helpless XCOM soldiers after friends, family and celebrities, to make their achievements all the sweeter, and their inevitable loss that much more tragic.

Let's talk about that fragile first force of fearless fighters, doomed to die daringly. Who will be your main men on that first campaign? In honour of the fine coverage here on RPS I'll be leading the charge with the members of the Hivemind.

Alec will be a Heavy, in honour of his favourite TF2 class. We'll see how bad a healer John is in Support, and joining him in that role will be Adam, for his able support of obscure indie games. Jim strikes me as a careful tactician in a scrap, so can gain high ground and Snipe. Nathan's enthusiastic prose leads me to think he's itching to get to grips with the alien, so he'll be up there in Assault with Quinns at his side. If Psionics turns out to be a separate class Kieron will be my first, because he's mental.

I'm so torn over preordering XCOM - I'm a bit tight on the cash front, and I have second year Uni exams looming like the Gaping Dragon, but it looks and sounds like exactly the sort of thing I love. I guess there's always Gaben's Christmas Sack Sharing but...

If I were to play it, I would probably name the squad after Fire Emblem characters.

I'll name them after Gears of War characters. But not really. I'll name them after Halo: Reach characters. But not really 2.0. I'll name them after my friend's and family, and borrow nicknames from Wing Commander characters.

Originally Posted by Oshada

I'm so torn over preordering XCOM - I'm a bit tight on the cash front, and I have second year Uni exams looming like the Gaping Dragon, but it looks and sounds like exactly the sort of thing I love. I guess there's always Gaben's Christmas Sack Sharing but...

I'm probably not going to rename my squad or edit their apperance, maybe nicknames and suit colors schemes( I think preordering allows that feature). I never renamed my squaddies in original games, maybe I just didn't know how to do that in 1994 as I knew very little English then but really they had such funny names, sometimes authentic, sometime ridiculous, almost as funny as in the first footbal game I played on PC at the same time( I still remember some names like Gargarin and Pechicker(??), best players in Russian team). Sadly, since there is no base building in XCOM, I can't name my bases like before.

Traditionally I have always named my squads after Bolshevik revolutionaries from 1917 Russia. Kamenev, Rykov, Bukharin, Stalin, Trotsky etc. This was mainly because I studied the period during my A-levels and enjoyed it. Seven years on, I realize that this was a rubbish idea.